A disk player has a disk cartridge for being loaded thereon, and accommodating a disk-type recording medium. The disk cartridge has a shutter arranged thereon, for performing slide-opening/closing in order to expose an information surface of the disk-type recording medium. The disk player includes a carrier mechanism for carrying the disk cartridge to an information regenerating location and an information recording location, and a shutter sliding mechanism for slide-opening/closing the shutter. The shutter assumes an intermediate position of sliding when the disk cartridge is located at one of the information regenerating location and. the information recording location, and assumes a terminal position of sliding when the shutter is located at the other one of the locations. The disk player also includes a driving mechanism including an engaging element and an engaged element which is separated from the engaging element when the information recording mechanism is not driven.
Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.
1. A disk player having a disk rotating mechanism for holding and rotating a disk-type information recording medium, a medium holder, a supporting member for mounting said disk rotating mechanism thereon wherein said supporting member is configured to be movable to at least an information recording position within the medium holder, an information recording mechanism arranged on said supporting member for recording information onto said disk-type recording medium under approaching and leaving said disk-type recording medium, and a control mechanism for enabling said information recording mechanism to approach and leave said recording medium; said control mechanism comprising an engaging element movably arranged on said supporting member and an engaged element fixedly formed on the medium holder and separated from said engaging element when said supporting members is not at said information recording position.
2. A disk player according to claim 1 , wherein said supporting member can perform reciprocating motion in predetermined directions, said engaging element is allowed to engage with and disengage from said engaged element during said reciprocating motion of said supporting member in said predetermined directions.
3. A disk player according to claim 2 , wherein said supporting member can be relatively shifted with respect to said disk-type recording medium, during said reciprocating motion of said supporting member in said predetermined directions.
4. A disk player according to claim 3 , wherein with the shifting of said supporting member in one of said predetermined directions in said reciprocating motion, said engaging element is engaged with said engaged element and at the same time said disk-type recording medium is held on said disk rotating mechanism.
5. The disk player according to claim 1 , wherein said medium holder is a cartridge holder.
6. The disk player according to claim 1 , wherein said medium holder comprises a housing with an opening, through which the information recording medium is inserted.
7. A disk player having a disk-rotating means for holding and rotating a disk-type information recording medium, a medium holder, a supporting means for mounting said disk-rotating means thereon and for moving to at least an information recording position, an information recording mechanism arranged on said supporting means for recording information onto said disk-type recording medium under approaching and leaving said disk-type recording medium and a control mechanism for enabling said information recording mechanism to approach and leave said recording medium; said control mechanism comprising an engaging element movably arranged on said supporting means and an engaged element fixedly formed on the medium holder and separated from said engaging element when said supporting means is not at said information recording position.
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January 2, 2001
February 18, 2003
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